good news! there is a skeleton inside of you, it won’t be cultural appropriation if you tell people to call you bone daddy, you can just do that :)

i thought it was about some yokai who would then haunt that boy forever or something

hey give me those all rounder offers, all i’m seeing is “we’re looking for a specialist in marketing in tiktok comments who speaking C2, B1, and A1 in Latin, Ancient Egyptian, and Mayan respectively. 5 years of experience required”

last time i had trouble with a game i found out there was a SteamDB thingy where people smarter than me share launch attributes that make games run properly

i also enjoy the Scots drinking cities dry and giving hats to statues

hey just wanted to say - thanks for admitting you misunderstood something. such a rare sight on the internet

especially when there’s some blue under the cap!

would this be okay?

nope, normal coke and pepsi don’t taste bad for me. it’s just the no sugar versions

whatever they use in diet coke tastes like stomach acid to me

Must a child dream of historical accuracy?

is such an amazing quote, well written

good actions for wrong reasons are… still good actions. you want to hire black actors to pander to minorities? sure, it’ll still help a little child imagine themselves as the hero, and help the actor show their skill. you want to hire a sensitivity consultant because it’ll look good in the credits? please do, at best they’ll really help, at worst they’ll get a free paycheque.

and if a race swapped character acts the same way as they did before? well alright, as long as it’s not completely nonsensical. obviously there are social and cultural differences but the world is vast, plenty of personalities out there.

we become what we do. this inclusiveness might be caused by pandering today, but because it’s being done at all, tomorrow it’ll be the norm

not the best way forward, but better than not moving at all

you’ve been forgiven

there are so many links that i’ve clicked expecting to be horny that turned out to be IT server stuff >:|

not here for sure, but Lemmy is not exactly a reflection of the general population

people are starting to grow numb to gen AI, and people have grown numb to worse things so it’s not exactly going to get undone easily

none of the “smart” devices are actually smart. in my experience they’re really fucking dumb

i once bought a “smart” electric kettle because i thought it’d be nice to boil my water to exact temperatures for my teas. it had a little button on a little screen to turn it on

and of course the screen stopped working, and that was the singular thing that broke. if the kettle had a physical switch i’d have only lost the ability to boil to exact temperatures instead of becoming fully useless

a similar thing happened with my Quest VR. a singular smart thing broke (the proximity sensor) and it bricked the whole thing (the proximity sensor deteced, well, proximity, and input from that decided if the screen inside was turned on. when it broke, the screen never turned on. the proximity sensor could be disabled - but only from within the settings menu that required the screen to be on in the first place. there was no other way to disable it, and that setting reset every full shut down)

never had that happen with my non smart devices, never had a non-critical feature failing bricked my “dumb” machine. oh the proper graphics card melted in my laptop? whatever i just disabled it, it might not perform as it used to but it’s still functional and perfect for just browsing the internet or watching youtube

my dumb printer never just stopped for no reason, my dumb kettle with a physical toggle has been working perfectly for 3 years now, my dumb light bulbs only stop working when they’ve reached the end of their ability to make light, my dumb devices never refuse to work even when what they can do isn’t perfect anymore

i was already annoyed by so many devices being labelled as “smart” when they’re not, and now they’re also adding “AI” to those things… i hate it here

this can easily be solved with a simple timer

i’m kind of both. sometimes i get to see friend groups rise and fall over the years as i stick in the same place, and sometimes i burn out and say my last “maybe i’ll log in next week, i’m kinda busy though so no promises” and disappear forever

thank you for giving me a great torture idea for all my IT adjacent friends, from now on i’ll be pronouncing all binary as if it were one number (up until i can’t be bothered anymore)

nobody is dying on hills here, this is a joke